Touch Not My Anointed

"Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm." Psalm 105:15

There are people who, in pride and ignorance, find it easy to abuse and to misuse those whom God has chosen. The find it easy to criticize the church and to accuse the pastor, and think that God does not see or hear or even care. 

Out text is part of the retelling of Israel's journey from a family to a nation. In this story it tells of how God watched over them and helped them no matter how large or small they were. God who watched over them will without a doubt  watch over us.

We apply this text to warn those who criticize our pastor. Those who call into question his motives and his methods. Those who do this fail to understand that leadership is uniquely set in place by God, whether we like it or not. Having never been a pastor or a leader, they think that they know better how our pastor should do his job. We ought to support our pastor, not criticize him.

God's people are unique also. We are the body of Christ. We are an illustration of what God working in a group of people looks like. We are a light that shines in the darkness. We are partakers of the Divine nature. We are a city on a hill for the world to see.

Woe to anyone who harms those whom God chooses.